(19)
(11) EP 2 151 326 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
20.10.2010 Bulletin 2010/42

(43) Date of publication A2:
10.02.2010 Bulletin 2010/06

(21) Application number: 09003314.3

(22) Date of filing: 06.03.2009
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
B41J 2/32(2006.01)
B41J 29/393(2006.01)
 B41J 3/60(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA RS

(30) Priority: 08.08.2008 JP 2008205911

(71) Applicant: Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Yamada, Satoshi
    Tokyo 141-8664 (JP)

(74) Representative: Allgayer, Ulla Barbara 
Kramer - Barske - Schmidtchen Landsberger Strasse 300
80687 München
80687 München (DE)

   


(54) Printer and control method thereof


(57) A printer includes: a print medium feeding means for feeding a print medium which is a double-sided printable continuous form paper; a first print head that performs printing on one side surface of the print medium; a second print head that performs printing on the other side surface of the print medium; abnormality detection sensors that are attached respectively to the first and second print heads and perform abnormality check for the first and second print heads; and a controller that performs control such that in the case where any abnormality is detected in one of the first and second print heads by one of the abnormality detection sensors, print data to be printed using one print head in which the abnormality has been detected is printed using the other print head which is normally operating.







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